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Published by The McCall Company, New York, 1934
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. "The Thin Man" and "The Boomeramg Clue" both illustrated by Joseph Franke (illustrator). It appears this is NOT the first appearance in book form of Hammett's "The Thin Man," reprinted here after its appearance in the December, 1933 edition of "Redbook" magazine. The introduction to the hard-boiled classic here includes a glossy B&W image of the Knopf dust jacket, reporting "Almost immediately upon publication in book form it shot to the top of the best seller list." Christie's "The Boomerang Clue," on the other hand, first appeared in the November, 1933 issue of Redbook, and it appears this is indeed its first AMERICAN book publication -- the introduction here indicates it's "To be published by Dodd, Mead & Co." In fact, the Dodd Mead edition issued in 1935, though we suspect the Collins Crime Club had indeed published this Christie entry in hardcover in 1934, albeit under the title "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?" Eberhart's "The Figure in the Fog" (Redbook, September, 1933) had also seen book publication by the time this collection issued, albeit under the changed title "The Dark Garden." Interestingly, the title page for "The Boomerang Clue" describes it as "a complete novel"; the title pages for "The Thin Man" and "The Figure in the Fog" do not, and we're fairly sure that means exactly what you'd suspect -- those two have both been "abridged," here. This volume now reduced from $82.
Published by The Mccall Company, 1934
Seller: Karl Theis, Torrance, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. Joseph Franke, Paul Ickes, Floyd Davis (illustrator). First Edition. PAGES AGE TONED, CORNERS WORN, otherwise a clean and unmarked copy.